Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP‘s New York-based collective is well-regarded for its abilities in advising its roster of clients across the financial services sector, in high-value, complex corporate transactional contexts. The triumvirate at the team’s helm in New York are Jeffrey Brill, who is experienced in handling a range of corporate transactions, and blockchain, digital assets, and securitization specialists Alexander Drylewski and Stuart Levi. Ryan Dzierniejko has notable expertise in fintech-related capital markets financings. Team changes include the March 2025 arrival of Michael Reed, who works with banking clients with the enhancement and digitization of services, as well as with various related corporate transactions, and the August 2025 departure of Adam Cohen.
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Accolades
Client satisfaction: Lawyer & team quality
Client satisfaction: Billing & efficiency
Client satisfaction: Sector knowledge
Key clients
- Circle IPO Underwriters
- CME Group
- eToro Group
- Veritas Capital and its portfolio company Cotiviti, Inc.
- The Ether Reserve
- Acrisure, LLC
- Squarespace, Inc.
- Nasdaq, Inc.
- Hive Digital Technologies Ltd.
- Tether Inc.
- BlackRock, Inc.
- BSTR Holdings
- IRIS Software Group
- Coastal Community Bank
- Financial Regulation Advice
- Hut 8 Corp.
- First Carolina Bank
- Cryptocurrency Exchange (Issuer) in Pending Fintech IPO
- Thread Bank
- Lightspeed Commerce Inc.
Work highlights
Advising CME in the $3.1 billion sale by CME and S&P Global of OSTTRA Group (United Kingdom), a fintech joint venture and leading provider of post-trade solutions for the global OTC market, to investment funds managed by KKR.
Represented eToro Group (“eToro”), an Israeli crypto-trading platform operator, in its $713 million IPO of Class A common shares and listing on Nasdaq.
Practice head
Jeffrey A. Brill; Alexander C. Drylewski; Stuart D. Levi